I have the gut-feeling that The Ubiquitous Oscar’ will be going to jail. But it’s only a gut-feeling. This Lady Justice Masipa is very, very compassionate, but the fact that she was visibly irritated by some of Mr. Roux’s really very insensitive, misplaced and idiotic submissions indicates a shift to me [at one point the Judge told Nel: “you can take it from me, all those paragraphs (i.e. Roux’s submission re the media “bias”) will be disregarded by this court”]. So I am encouraged that Judge Masipa, while outrageously compassionate, is very meticulous and disciplined.

Very subtle. Very powerful. Further than that, Nel may not go – given the court’s verdict. A ‘negligence’ that bothers on ‘intent’ is the highest form/degree of ‘negligence’ that exists. I am astonished that Roux did not even attempt to soften that, because, if the Court accepts Nel’s submission, that will definitely do serious damage to Pistorius. Roux was more concerned with “the (rails in the) shower” – i.e. Oscars personal comfort in the bathroom!

(Roux is brilliant and very eloquent, but he has also got a stupid way of being detrimentally pretentious, pompous, insensitive, petty and childish and doesn’t seem to realize when he is pushing the line really too far).

Like the rugged African Lion, Nel fought a good battle for a defenseless girl. Though the court found Oscar guilty of negligent homicide, Nel dealt Oscar some deadly blows and convinced all reasonable people that Oscar is a murderer, an egomaniac, “The Sadist Emir Of The Neverland” who shows wanton disregard for the life of those ‘he The Oscar’ considers lesser human beings and beneath the huge ‘him’. Regardless of the disappointing verdict and the (possibly disappointing) sentence, Nel is among the ultimate prosecutors – with breathtaking oratorical know-how and mastery of case-presentation and court theatrics. The silenced dead are happy to have him on their side and speak for them. Congrats, Nel! I hope Reeva’s parents and siblings find a way to move on and prosper and are able to one day smile again.

Maybe this has already been discussed, but the appeal for a new trial in regard to Marissa Alexander was granted because the judge in the original trial included instruction that she had to prove her claim of self defense beyond a reasonable doubt.

A) The defendant has a right to a venue loaded with paranoid racists who think “the blacks” are out to get them.

B) It is a well established Faux News fact that any argument based on logic and reason is not faith based and, as such, must not be allowed to taint our perfect system of justice – or as in the immortal words of Frank Burns “It is only by blindly following authority, that we can truly be free”.

C) There was a conspiracy to remove the one person who knew about the hard core Commie conspiracy to rob us of our precious bodily fluids. I mean it is all quite clear to Dunne and General Ripper. “The blacks” or “liberals”, because they do not deny their “essence” during the act of love, become pawns in the Commie plot to take down our great nation.

Dunn ought to be careful on what he asks for — in court and in prison. Change the trial venue to South Florida — Monroe, Broward, Dade — and Dunnbo likely would find a conviction on all counts including M1 coming in the first time. Med examiner was well within her bounds.

I read the 60-page transcript of the sidebar where Guy asked to get rid of juror and Carlyle wanted to keep him. Dunn was at the sidebar. The last thing the dismissed Juror #4 said at the sidebar was “Good luck to you, Mr. Dunn.”

I wonder if he was a ringer for the defense who inadvertently got knocked off via the online Folio piece.

I firmly believe Fogen would have found someone to kill. He’s already had several incidents where it could have happened and 2 are white people…….actually 4. The road rage incident, Samantha, Shellie and her dad. Not to mention him getting his gun and following the UPS delivery driver because “…he didn’t look right”

His head is not wired right and if he’s not stopped, we’ll hear from him again.

With respect to Roux’s argument that OP needs rails to shower and the prisons don’t have rails in the showers, Nel points out that the prisons have shower rails and, in any event, OP did not have rails in his shower or bathroom.